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Date:      Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:22:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 scsi parity and tagged openings problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981112152239.13696A-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199811110423.VAA14192@panzer.plutotech.com>

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In article <72bbsi$p22$1@ananke.salford.ac.uk>,
Kenneth D. Merry <ken@plutotech.com> wrote:
>Mark Powell wrote...
>> Nov 10 15:48:55 titan /kernel: (da3:ahc1:0:4:0): tagged openings now 64
>> Nov 10 15:48:55 titan /kernel: (da3:ahc1:0:4:0): tagged openings now 63
>> Nov 10 15:48:58 titan /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 2
>> Nov 10 15:48:58 titan /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 2
>
>It looks like one of your disks at least doesn't like tagged queueing.
The
>interesting thing is that it's one of the drives that is *not* in your
CCD
>array.  (you said that only da1 and da3 are in the array)  Were you doing
>I/O to da2 at the time?  What's on that disk?  I would suggest that you:

OOps, that was me recreating the output that had scrolled off the screen.
Sorry :) That last drive should have been da1, of course.

>The reason you probably didn't see this on 2.2.7-stable is because the
old
>SCSI layer only allowed 4 tags at a time to go to a drive.  It may be
that
>your drive has trouble whenever its transaction queue gets full and it
has
>to return queue full status.  The old SCSI code probably wouldn't have
>filled the transaction queue, but CAM will send as many transactions as
it
>can to the disk.

Okay, Kenneth, looks like I need Seagate or IBM drives in future. Many
thanks for your advice.

>Kenneth Merry
>ken@plutotech.com

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